Vertical Files

The vertical files at the Maki Library consist of ephemeral collections on the following three subjects: Suomi College, Finland and Finlandia University. Ephemeral materials include; newspapaper clippings, travel brochures, maps, university publications, governmental, and commercial publications from Finland and more. These items are not available for loan, however patrons and guests may browse through the files in the library. Arragements can be made to provide copies of items for 10 cents per page. Please browse through the files to the right to see what the file subjects are and all of the contents for the Finland file are available.

– Envelope with 6 color cards of Finnish costumes/dancers. With pages of Narration from Suomi College student-faculty program on Finnish dances and costumes presented at University of Wisc., Green Bay, 1972.

1. Separate, blue folder with old postcards on photograph paper. Pictures of various cities, regions, buildings in Finland. “These cards were purchased through Mr. Ranamaki at the Book Concern about 1930.” 10 pages, 20 cards.

2. Separate, red folder with old postcards on photo paper. (no explanation but probably the same source as folder 1. Also 10 pages, 20 cards.

– Paper: “The Finns in American Colonial History: (remarks of Hon. Frank E. Hook, Member of Congress from Michigan in House of Representatives, August 21, 1937. 8 pp (reference to Delaware Tercentenary observance in 1938)

– Paper, copy of Address given at NMU on Finnish Culture Week, December 16-21, 1975 : ” From Underground Mines to backwoods Farms” (Dr. John I. Kolehmainen) – as printed in the Congressional Record of the U.S. Senate, January 10, 1975. (Finnish Americans: A Proud Heritage. Bound in cardboard cover.

– Report # 1391, House of Representatives. July 29, 1937. “First Permanent Settlement in Delaware River Valley” (Mr. Allen of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs) Invitation to Government of Finland to participate in 300th anniversary celebration; & info. Re: New Sweden Colony.

– Booklet / Exhibition Catalog: “Delaware 350” – 350 years of Finnish American Friendship 1638-1988. / The Beginning of Finnish Migration to the New World (written in Finnish, Swedish and English). Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland. 1988

– Correspondence, Suomi College Librarian, Mrs. Douglass Ollila, and Floyd Milkey, re: research on Mullikka family, New Sweden on the Delaware, and Savo district of Finland. (4 pages; August, 1955)

– Booklet: The Making of a welding engineer and the birth of a welding enterprise”. Matt Kiilunen. (autobiography) 1972.

FINNS IN THE U.S.

– Magazine: “Kalevainen” 1974. Publication of the Knights and Ladies of the Kaleva. Virginia, Minnesota. English and Finnish articles, including one by Olaf Rankinen and LAMP, flying ministry in Canada.

– Publication /News Release : “Finnish Features” by Ministry for Foreign Affairs. “Speech by the President of the Republic of Finland [Dr. Urho Kekkonen] to undergraduates on Independence Day, December 6, 1963.

– Publication /News Release: “Finnish Features” /Ministry for Foreign Affairs. No. 59/63. “Speech by Finnish Foreign Minister, prof. Veli Merikoski on October the 2nd 1963 during the general debate of the 18th General Assembly of the United Nations”

– Letter written by Janet Dalquist in response to inquiry from Iowa about Scandinavians and the American Revolution. She presents references about John Morton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, of Finnish heritage.

– Xeroxed article: (stapled into folder) : “After the Golden Moment; For some champions the Olympics have meant enduring fame, for others they are only the memory of a transcendent instant of glory” (Part 2, the Olympic Games) from Sports Illustrated; July 17, 1972. (section: “Paavo Nurmi, Recluse”)

– Booklet: “Finland Builds”. Published by the Finnish New York World’s Fair Commission. July, 1940.

RECONSTRUCTION (1941 – )

– Magazine / Newspaper article (stapled into folder) “How Finland Balks Her Communists. … The little country in a dangerous corner….stays independent. What is her secret for survival? ” by Demaree Bess. February 25, 1950.

– Book: “Finland Reveals her Secret Documents on Soviet Policy, March 1940-June 1941. (Attitude of the USSR to Finland after the Peace of Moscow) Official Blue-White Book of Finland, with a preface by HJ.J. Procope, Minister of Finland to the United States. 1941

– Publication / News Release : Finnish Features (Ministry for Foreign Affairs). “Reply of the President of the Republic to the letter dated December 31, 1963 from Premier N.S. Kruschev. No. 2/64

– Report (Xeroxed) : “The Rights and Duties of a Foreign Student in Finland.” – Report of the seminar arranged by the National Steering Committee. Edited, Arvi Tamminen. 1977. (Finnish and English language)